Quotes About Duty

But somebody had to do something

My family had chosen the army as my career, and war is the army's stock in trade.

History belongs in the past; but understanding it is the duty of the present.

History belongs to the past, but understanding it is the duty of the present

Our position in life should never determine our posture in service.

But they were all thinking the selfsame thing: I might be a disgrace to my country. I might be a coward, even. But I'm not up there in those woods getting shot at

It must have been the sense of having done his whole duty, and expended upon the cause every energy of his being, which enabled him to meet the approaching catastrophe with a calmness which seemed to those around him almost sublime.

Wolin wrote that even when faced with certain defeat, all of us are called to the "awful responsibility" of the fight for justice, equality and liberty.

Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn't resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won't stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what's a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)

So I take it you guys are going to stay inside my flat and not out in the hallway like my father's guards? (Kiara) You know that's the most pathetic way to guard someone. (In a falsetto he added.) Please protect my life by being outside so that when they come in and kill me you can't hear it. (Syn)

Death always before dishonor. (Julian)

That's not fair. (Talon) I'm not paid to be fair. I'm paid to kick Daimon ass. (Acheron)

So what brings you here? (Devyn) People needed killing. (Adron)

There's no need in both of us dying tonight. (Kiara) I took an oath to save every life I could. I'm not about to back out on it now. I might be a lot of things, but a coward has never been one of them. (Syn)

Stop the pain." – Tory "You know I can't." – Acheron "Fine. But next time you're the one who's doing labor duty. I get to sit there and hold your hand." – Tory (And again he laughed. She glared at him.) "You have no sense of self preservation, do you?" – Tory

There's too much to be done. I need to know– (Jericho) No. (Delphine) No, you d'in. (Jericho) Yes, I di'id. Don't make me use my Jeri ninja mind tricks on you. I might screw up and fry your brains. (Delphine)

I was in the army, Terri. Special Ops, sent into the most godforsaken places you can imagine, where I did unspeakable things. We weren't exactly sent in to teach our enemies to knit. (Nathan)

It's infinitely better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.-Grim

Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.

Depose him,' said Will Scott, astonished. 'The Grand Master's holy office terminates with his life.' 'And can nobody think of an answer to that?' said Will Scott.

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

Life is moral responsibility.

Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Where unity and self-sacrifice are indispensable for the normal functioning of society, everyday life is likely to be either religiofied (common tasks turned into holy causes) or militarized.